Make Wonderkids on Football Manager

We have done ridiculously extensive testing on training in Football Manager and we can conclusively tell you how to best develop your wonderkids so you can have a super stacked team on FM. It’s the dream of every Football Manager player and we have the facilities to release such things to everyone.

This is also an imperfect science. Sometimes your players will develop no matter what you do, and sometimes that wonderkid you thought you knew turns out to never be good no matter what you do. I can’t save you from this, but we can try to help you get the most out of those Football Manager wonderkid dreams of yours.

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The Zealand

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[Avioto]

Always wanted Zealand to tell me how to make kids

[NickT]

The 27/28 y/o agility and balance boost is easy to explain. They've reached an age where they don't care what other people think and taken up yoga.

[DrZaius]

I once found a 196 potential wunderkind when I already secured promotion into the 4th league of England. The board wanted to sell him every step of the way, but I fought tooth and nails and he played virtually every game for me including when we reached the Premier League. There will never be another like him.

[Varasalvi]

I had noticed that players developed more in non-loaded leagues, but i honestly thought i was just imagining it and reinforcing it with confirmation bias. Nice to have it confirmed.

[andreasaust]

Training facilities: I’ve found out that they actually make a big difference- but only at later stages of a players CA development (not talking about age), for example I had a player with PA 180. His development stagnated when he reached a CA of 140. But when my facilities got upgraded he suddenly was able to improve his CA again. Similar examples happened now several times to me

[bagera]

The 40+ matches causing worse develepment is logical cause those players are exhausted much more often, take slower to recover and then their training automatically gets set to a lower training intensity.

[LordPiddlington]

I think Evidence Based Football Manager came to exactly the same conclusions on his channel. There's some weird stuff going on under the hood in the game, like inactive leagues being better for loans.

[royals]

Glad to see this video back up and all the issues moved on.

I’m looking forward to the collaborations in the future with you and Max.

You handled the situation very professionally Zealand. All the respect to you

[astrodunkbg]

even if winning or losing doesn't matter for development, being on a winning squad means better locker atmosphere. Which is usually easier to get higher training ratings with for the whole team. Winning usually helps for everything :D

[pbsmoothie]

One thing about putting lots of youth players in your senior team, your coaching workload will start to move up. Not sure the impact of coach training workload on player dev. Based on Zs section about facilities and workload, assuming it's not too detrimental

[schkal]

Thanks man this is by far my favorite video of yours. You explained so many things I was wondering. Amazing job

[pwalmsley]

Love this, Z. Loads of useful tidbits in here.

Would love to see you do a deep dive into the data hub and interpreting analyst feedback. Seems to be the main area I find tough to get to grips with.

[FourEyesOptic]

My girlfriend said that she doesn't want any kids right now... any advice on this?

[wilsonoliveira]

Rocking the Vitoria de Guimarães shirt, I see you Zealand 🔥🔥🔥

[alvesh]

I love the Vitoria De Guimaraes kit (i'm portuguese and recognised it immediatly) i don't usually see people where kits from portugal other than the big 3 and braga.

Love the video too!

[RishiJParmar]

Amazing video with some hard work done behind the scenes - huge credit to the team that did the experiments. This has cleared up some questions and misconceptions I have, even as an FM veteran who has thousands of hours in the game. Makes me want to start a new save (with less leagues loaded) and develop some wonderkids!

[Benson]

@8:40 something I read a couple years back is and have noticed, never make a sub after 75 minute's as they won't get a match rating. The match rating helps the player development

[echadit]

Oh man, thanks for the experiment! Been playing FM since 2006 and the question of how to better develop youth players (not just wonderkids) always pops up every now and then but I never figured it out entirely. Makes me want to start a new save now!

[onetruesmugs]

The only question I've got is if you're an elite team in the EPL, you're playing about 60 matches a season, which obviously leads to a lot of non-training days where you're either playing a game or travelling/recovery all of that kind of stuff. If you're putting your wonderkids in for senior training, does that loss of training matter, given that there are usually fewer match days in the U21/U18 squads? You're also probably doing more match focussed training than development focussed training too. But if all of that is irrelevant, then great news, I guess!

[dundersam]

The amount of matches makes sense because if youre playing 40+ matches every year youre likely to have points in the season where you are fatigued and end up on lower intensity of training(if you have training intensity set automatically)